Shauna M. Strickland is a Senior Court Research Analyst within the Research Division of the National Center for State Courts.  She currently works on the Court Statistics Project as the manager of data collection efforts and assists both trial and appellate courts with implementation of the State Court Guide to Statistical Reporting. 

Additional work includes serving as project manager for both State Court Organization and the Survey of State Court Criminal Appeals and as primary staff on the NICS Improvement Amendments Act: State Records Estimates Development and Validation Project, the Census of Problem-Solving Courts, and the Warrants and Dispositions Improvement Project.  Ms. Strickland served as project manager for the 2005 Civil Justice Survey of State Courts: Supplemental Survey of Civil Appeals and was involved in data collection for the three previous Civil Justice Surveys of State Courts, a pilot study of Criminal Cases on Appeal, and she led the data collection efforts for State Court Organization, 2004.

Ms. Strickland contributes to the Court Statistics Project's annual publications, Examining the Work of State Courts and State Court Caseload Statistics. 

Additional publications include:

• Mental Health Court Culture: Leaving Your Hat at the Door, final report and Executive Summary for the Judicial Decision-Making in Mental Health Courts project (National Center for State Courts, November 2009);
• "State Trial Courts:  Achieving Justice in Civil Litigation," (a chapter in Exploring Judicial Politics, (Ed.) Mark Miller (Oxford University Press, 2009));
• "Beyond the Vanishing Trial: A Look at the Composition of State Court Dispositions" (an article in Future Trends in State Courts 2005.)
• "Examining Trial Trends in State Courts: 1976-2002" (an article in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, vol.1 no. 3, November 2004).

Ms. Strickland holds a MPA from Old Dominion University (Va.) and has worked at the NCSC since 2002, receiving the Jeanne A. Ito Staff Award in 2006.

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